It's time YouTube gets some actual competition. Maybe it'll force them to revert some of the enshittification it's been going through. The crap is near unusable these days.

I don't know a single person who ever said that they want more or bigger touchscreens in their car.

Quite the opposite. I want physical controls and so do most people I've talked to. This is a car, not an iPad. Most of it I should be able to operate without taking my eyes off the road. And a touchscreen doesn't offer that.

In fact, Euro NCAP agrees. If you want a 5-star rating, you need physical controls.

The only people who want touchscreens are the car manufacturers, because it's cheaper and easier.

Technically this is a re-enlistment bonus, so they're not trying to attract new recruits but keep the ones they have... and if this is being touted as a re-enlistment bonus things must truly be dire.

lol, like phys.org (somewhere between journalism and breathless huckterism) has never got crucial facts or inferred conclusions wrong.

College press releases, science journalism, and medical journalism THRIVE on hyperbole and overexaggerated / misunderstood conclusions like this.

And this is the real reason so many vested interests are trying to kill cash worldwide... because the banks don't get a cut of every transaction made with cash. It's not about eliminating privacy (that might be a slight benefit for some), the real reason is far more insideous... it's that the rich aren't able to profit from it.

People who listen to bad music also bad drivers. Seems there's a link between making different kinds of bad choices.

Tune into the News at 11 where we ask, is water really wet?

This is the result of a society that has been addicted to easy credit to the point where they think credit is the same as money.

And what happens when every shop is doing it because it's literally not illegal?

This is exactly why this kind of behaviour is illegal in many countries and you can't sign away your statutory rights with a shrinkwrap contract.... Hell you can't even sign them away with a contract written in blood.

That's a good point. Yes, it could be Anthropic simply making sure that they can't be blamed if someone doesn't disclose AI usage. Now they can say: "We did everything we could to make sure AI usage is visible".

Though I doubt it'll hold up in court unless the watermark is obvious. Because, again, the law requires disclosure. I don't think a hard-to-detect watermark would satisfy that demand.

For me the visualization of direct collapse black hole formation is that there's still a huge mass of gas falling in, at the boundary of the new black hole nearly dense enough to direct collapse itself. The blowback would compress the inflow over the density edge and you get a whole cloud of black holes.

I don't disagree with that one iota... However normal people don't buy Windows licenses like they buy their pants, home users buy it as a package with their computer (OEM) so they won't notice the price increase where as companies pay per year for CALs and they'll notice but can't do anything about it.

With the price of RAM and Storage going up it's the perfect time for MS to raise prices and not get blamed for it.

What do you mean "nothing". This means he cant use someone else’s money to buy another tropical island where he can be protected and isolated from people like you or I when the revolution comes...

Billionaires like Larry are suffering, their valet has to walk 5 miles to get bottles of artisan water every day. You can help this, donate $30 per day to the Make a Fortune foundation and change the plight of a billionaire.

When it comes to platforms like Steam or GOG Galaxy they're a lot more than storefronts. You can almost turn it off entirely in steam and it's almost hidden by default in GOG as I've never even gone into it by accident whilst randomly clicking on shit. It's the other functionality like patching, updating, verifying and managing local files that is quite difficult to do on the web.

When buying from Steam or GOG I always use the web from a different device because I tend to treat my gaming computer as suspect (hey I know what goes on, on there) and use a secure device I don't really use for much else than buying stuff.

I've never even used the Epic store as I don't play fortnite ergo trust them about as far as I can throw their HQ which must be located on the 8th circle of hell with the other thieves and fraudsters, especially after trying to bring console-like "exclusives" to PC but this is still GOOD NEWS! he shouts like an excited James May, it means they aren't able to ignore Linux any more as a games platform. I've built a new gaming PC a few months back and it's been fine on Linux. I've dual booted with Windows 11 but I've only booted into that twice in 3 months, the first time to see if it worked and the second time to see if the same drive was missing (turned out the power had come out of the back of the drive) and the second time I realised I hadn't even installed the graphics drivers (still haven't). Linux is more than ready for gaming.

This is why I'm glad I live in a country that doesn't treat consumers like second class citizens. Amazon could just... you know... do less of whatever it is that brings class actions?

Too simple.

The problem is that the lathe doesn't pretend to be a human, nor was it designed to look like a human. But AI bots are.

AI is here to stay. At least until the Butlerian Jihad. The problem most people have with AI pretending to be human.